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Wikipedia will continue to fail because Jimbo, the creator of Wikipedia, decided to make new projects. If you were to see in Wp:not#Wikipedia_is_not_a_publisher_of_original_thought clause three, it states, "Wikipedia is supposed to compile human knowledge." Yet, Jimbo decided to destroy what an Encyclopaedia is, by creating more projects. Fact: Wikitionary is considered part of the sum of all human knowledge. Fact: Wikinews is considered part of the sum of all human knowledge. Fact: Wikisource is considered part of the sum of all human knowledge. Fact: Wikiquote is considered part of the sum of all human knowledge. Fact: Wikibooks is considered part of the sum of all human knowledge. Fact: Wikispecies is considered part of the sum of all human knowledge. Fact: Wikiversity is considered part of the sum of all human knowledge. How is this considered that Wikipedia is failing, you might ask. Since Wikipedia is the sum of all human knowledge all the above mentioned projects should be somehow incorporated into En.Wikipedia.Org. If you see the other projects they have already Failed, because the editors there are so few compared to Wikipedia. --Parker007 19:17, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
Actually, this should help increase our collection of human knowledge, because things not appropriate for an encyclopedia would fit under these other websites. News articles are knowledge, yet they are not encyclopedia articles. What do you do? Create a place where it fits. That way, we are not restricted to encyclopedia articles, but news articles, galleries of images, collections of texts, a library of textbooks, a dictionary, a hierarchal lifeform directory, a database of quotations, and, especially inappropriate for Wikipedia, an active learning environment. This way, each respective project can set their own standards for each kind of article or whatever in their field. Improvements all around. —Signed, your friendly neighborhood MessedRocker. 21:49, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
I am greatly relieved to discover that I have not decreased the contents of my filing cabinet by increasing the number of folders therein to organize those contents, even though each individual folder now contains a smaller proportion of the total. -- Ben 04:35, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi, Mr. Jimbo Wales, I'm Chaplin in Hong Kong. I'm a member of the Chinese Wikipedia, and I wanted to be a member of the English one too. But can you tell me, after I've tried a lot of computers in Hong Kong and none of them could create accounts, then what should I do? Can you help me? Thank you very much and I'm sorry that I've wasted your time. --61.239.132.111 09:34, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
This is just a suggestion, but can you consider making a mobile version of Wikipedia, because many people, including myself, sometimes don't have a computer to use Wikipedia on. So I make do with a mobile phone. It is alot harder, due to the amount of information on Wikipedia. I hope that you take this into consideration. Thank you. Magistrand Sign Here! 17:38, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
What can be done to make it easier to use the wikipedia? It's disheartening to encounter so many false accusations, ad hominem attacks, presumptive users. Apparently the ideal that people are acting good faith isn't being observed. It's difficult finding an adequate venue to submit concerns, feedback, suggestions. The usual venues don't work well. Better features are needed for submitting feedback, suggestions, resolving concerns that are more readily available than having to naviagate around to locate where a concern can be expressed adequately. For example, it's puzzling whether to take a complaint up with another user on your own talk link or their talk link. The usability of the wikipedia needs to be improved. --dsaklad@zurich.csail.mit.edu 03:11, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Hey Mr Wales, I just wanted to know that if we create Filmographies for actors, do we really need to list them in chronological order because most sites including IMDB follow the reverse-chronological order which I believe is the correct format. Well there is a Request for comment on this Issue if you like to check it out because your views on this Issue would be highly appreciated..Thanx..--Cometstyles 14:23, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
There is a WP:RFCN regarding a user known as "Jimbobbowilly", I though I would tell you about it since one of the concerns the name is related to your name. HighInBC (Need help? Ask me) 15:10, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Here's an idea. I'm going to select a number of famous users on Wikipedia, vandals and contributors. To make a fun little wiki cartoon. About you and some famous wiki admins and contributors, fighting against frequent vandals and their armies of sockpuppets, but rather like in a real enivroment not just the encyclopedia. Here's some users I want to select for the cartoon. Any ideas come to my talk page
Contributors (famous wiki contributors)
Vandals (famous wiki vandals and their hundreds of socks)
Excellent isn't it? Retiono Virginian 13:52, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
This is a disgrace. I'm a legitimate editor, not a vandal. It is nothing harassing, or abusive, or even troublemaking, and I'am very angry that you made this comment. Please see your talk page Durova. Retiono Virginian 13:13, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
I got a very hot response to my comment here on my user talk page. WP:DENY means deny recognition to the troublemakers because any recognition inspires imitators. The editor who proposed this idea could get around that dilemma by creating fictional troublemakers and portraying them as self-defeating buffoons. Since quite a few problem users do behave like self-defeating buffoons I could help by lending some (fictionalized) anecdotes. DurovaCharge! 20:44, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi. Could you please sign some more of users' autograph pages? Everyone wants you to sign their autograph page. (like me) Please sign my autograph page, and a few others. Thank you. A•N•N•Afoxlover PLEASE SIGN HERE, ANYONE! 18:23, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
And please sign my autograph book. I really really really really (x500) want you to. Qmwnebrvtcyxuz 16:38, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
Please. Qmwnebrvtcyxuz 15:10, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Why would you want that? I'm perplexed. Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 18:15, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
I am writing requesting clarification of the wikipedia trademark with respect to usernames. There has been massive discussion regarding this at both Wikipedia talk:Username policy and WP:RFCN with little consensus and it is clear that we need information from the wikipedia foundation regarding this.
What we really need to know is, should all usernames with the word Wikipedia in be blocked? Meta seams to suggest that they should be. However, usernames such as 'wikipediasteve' have had many comments suggesting that this is sufficiently different from the trademark to be OK.
Everyone agrees that usernames such as wikipedia1 should be disallowed, but the others really need clarification from the top!
This would be quite a big change in policy as many usernames may need to be blocked if wikipedia can't be used in any username (although I'm not aware of an active user where this is the case).
Yours, and the foundations comments would be much appreciated RyanPostlethwaiteSee the mess I've created or let's have banter 23:02, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
In such a situation usernames absolutely should NOT be blocked. Users should be faciliatated in changing their names. To block a large number of innocent users would be a seroius disruption of wikipedia and violate Wikipedia:Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point, SqueakBox 00:28, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
The issue here, is that the word Wikipedia is a trademark of the foundation. As such, its use already runs afoul of the Username policy in three places, which prohibits 1. "commonly used Wikipedia software or community terms 2. "names implying an official position on Wikipedia" and 3. "Non-trivial trademarked names that undoubtedly refer to the owner of the trademark." However, some users would like to allow the use of the trademark in usernames anyway. It has also been noted that this may be a violation of the meta policy "that the use of the trademarks has to be non-confusing - people should always know who they are dealing with." However as this is a draft, its authority is being questioned. In my opinion, this is much like unauthorized uses and derivations of the Wikipedia logo, whereas previously, people making those uses have been requested to refrain. (currently, names with wiki, or wikipedian or things like wikipe-tan are not disallowed, as wiki is a non-trademarked word)
Second, prohibiting the use of the word Wikipedia in usernames, has been the actual practice for some time now. It would not require a major change of any kind, since most users with this have been blocked per one of the parts of the username policy listed in the previous paragraph, or have never edited or are not actively editing. A search of the logs shows about twos active editors this would affect. (User:Wikipediaman123 and User:Wikipedia-len). Your comments are appreciated. pschemp | talk 01:50, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
I see this has been resolved. I'd like to point out that names like this general were already blocked, and that ryan's email was vague to say the least. Anyway, its done. pschemp | talk 05:36, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
Category:All_articles_lacking_sources has a total of 48,458 articles. Do you really think anyone is going to bother to reference them for free? I mean referencing articles is not "fun". My suggestion is to hire a full time referencer. --Parker007 20:31, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi Jimbo, I believe you will be meeting Wikipedians in Chennai on 25-Feb-2007, any scheduled plans for meeting Wikipedians in other Indian cities as well esp Delhi. --Vjdchauhan 05:53, 20 February 2007 (UTC).
I replied at User talk:Thebainer. — coelacan talk — 18:10, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
I was interviewed by WUSF radio today for a story on Wikipedia which is going to air next week (it may or may not make it nationally on NPR member stations). The man who interviewed me, Brad Stager, wants to get an interview with you and I told him I would drop you a line. If you won't be in the Bay area he can do interviews by phone. Please write on my talk page and tell me what you think, because I don't have this page on my watchlist. His Wikipedia account is User:Bstager. Mike H. I did "That's hot" first! 22:48, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi! I am not advocating this, recommending, or anything else other than just bring it to your attention (and everybody else who reads this page). I realize your opinion on accepting outside advertisement, but should circumstances change, a way to gently bring in outside advertisements might be to allow 'Paid External Links' after the normal 'External Links' section. For example, earlier today I was reading the Fedora article because, hey, I'm thinking of buying a hat. :-) Well, for me, it would actually have been a service to have some External Links pointing to some people actually selling Fedoras.
Like I said, I'm not attempting to get this implemented in any way, but if circumstances change and the community ever decides to solicit money in a more aggressive way, this might be a very unobtrusive method of obtaining operational funds (if it ever came to that). Kind of like Yahoo's inclusion of paid links on the right side of their search results page.
Have a great day!!! 63.3.15.130 03:12, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
Mr. Wales, may I request your input at a proposed policy being written. Thank you for your time. — MichaelLinnear 05:19, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
Hello Mr. Wales, I have a request. Many wikipedians have been saying that they really want you to sign their signature books, and I thought I might ask you to. At my sig book, there is also a compilation of links to other sig books. Thanks for your time, and I hope that you get the chance to sign some books. Have a nice day -- Ryan 15:08, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi Jimmy:
Alright, you're a Bama guy. You went to Auburn University and the University of Alabama. I know you know how it is in Alabama. I'm wondering, are you Navy Blue and Burnt Orange? or Crimson and White? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.8.12.94 (talk • contribs) 08:34, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
I believe today is the date you set for us to resume our discussions over the Brian Peppers article. Please can we continue discussions, and could you also please direct me as to where I should go to express my opinions, as I'm fairly new to wikipedia. Thanks!--Boris Allen 00:23, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
Here we go again. MER-C 12:22, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
I was pleased to see a good discussion by the community at Deletion review, and it looks like the decision is pretty firm.--Jimbo Wales 16:56, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
I'll be to the point-I believe you made an error here. I made the initial post to WP:AN/I regarding Rbj's conduct, and I do believe that it was of concern, especially his restoration of legal threats against Physicq. Physicq was at least somewhat distressed by these threats [1], as almost anyone would be-the threat of a lawsuit, no matter how ridiculous, is something that gives anyone pause. As far as I knew, this was the entire rationale behind our policy against legal threats.
Rbj didn't need anyone to unblock him. He could've easily been unblocked just by removing the legal threat that, per WP:BAN, he chose to take ownership of by restoring. He was made well aware of this [2], but chose not to do so. He was well aware of the banning policy, he specifically commented that he "took ownership" of another of Nkras' edits when restoring it. Nkras' conduct has been very disruptive, and quite realistically, Rbj's has as well. Since being unblocked, he took to cursing at Coelacan, on AN/I and his talk page, as well as Bainer. He seems to think he can act with near-impunity now, and I'm afraid he might be right-anyone would be hesitant to block a user whose block you reversed, for any reason.
I don't believe that this case is one in which it was correct or necessary for you to unilaterally reverse another administrator. Certainly, no one doubts that you can do so, after all you do run the place in the end. But I'm interested as to why you think such drastic action was necessary. Seraphimblade Talk to me Please review me! 03:36, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
Rbj is under no special protection from me. He needs to behave himself. However, I think that the facts in this particular case where nowhere near enough to justify an indefinite ban. He did not MAKE a legal threat, and construing his restoration of some discussion to his talk page as taking ownership of other people's comments in the sense of making them his own really stretches the imagination.--Jimbo Wales 10:02, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
make it stop, please. Hipocrite - «Talk» 21:18, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
User:Jayjg keeps making a reckless edit to Quiverfull. In the article, he keeps insisting on calling Charles D. Provan a "holocaust denier" rather than a "holocaust revisionist" and has refused to explain himself. I have repeatedly pointed User:Jayjg to Provan's book No Holes? No Holocaust? where Provan specifically affirms it happened and takes on real holocaust deniers over the fact. It is very clear User:Jayjg has not studied the matter yet he insists on recklessly pushing his edit. User:Jayjg has also made a reckless edit to Charles D. Provan, placing a "fact" tag on material that should have been immediately removed, since Provan is alive.[3] C.m.jones 06:37, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
Hello I am Big Boss 0. I am new to wikipedia and would like to formally invite you to visit my userpage. Please feel free to leave any and all comments on my talk page. Thank you! Big Boss 0 14:48, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
Hello Mr. Jimbo,
we are planning a Web 2.0 Conference in Florianópolis, Brazil, probably next September. Among the subjects, the Wiki Way and, of course, Wikipedia will are discussed.
Do you have interest in talk to us about your projects and experience?
Thanks for your attemption.
Marcelo Herondino Cardoso [4] —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 200.180.4.107 (talk) 14:52, 22 February 2007 (UTC).
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeowners_association
I added to this article, a second time, info about the origins of planned communities and their mass merchandising under, The Homes Association Handbook section. Quick, read it before it vanishes without a trace as did my first post on this past Monday."
I am quite surprised by this event. An encylclopedia is bona fide if it publishes the truth, and not if it presents a consensus of individuals who have a personal agenda. My entry provides a balanced view of HOAs and uses verifiable materials from CAI and ULI. Its secretive removal is disgraceful and can only be an extreme bias by Wikipedia editors.
Please restore integrity to Wikipedia and keeo my posting. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Pvtgov (talk • contribs) 16:16, 22 February 2007 (UTC).
Hey Jimbo Wales, I e-mailed you about something I need. I e-mailed it to jwales@wikia.com. I e-mailed it yesterday. Thanks -chris^_^ 23:08, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
Good evening, Jimbo. As you probably have learned by now (and in case you haven't: see here for the article and here for the lawsuit filings), Fuzzy Zoeller is suing Josef Silny & Associates, Inc. on counts of defamation, invasion of privacy (flase light), and intentional infliction of emotional distress over an edit made by an IP address located at the business.
I was hoping you could comment on this situation, talk about possible implications, and discuss anything else you deem noteworthy for a possibly article in the Wikipedia Signpost. Thank you very much! └Jared┘┌talk┐ 00:57, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Barnstar and award proposals/New Proposals is considering a new Barnstar to be given to people who make great combined contributions to Wikipedia articles and the Commons free-use image collection. The current draft design for the barnstar incorporates the Wikipedia Commons logo. Please let us know if there is a problem with this usage. Thanks very much, Johntex\talk 17:53, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Your input at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Daniel Brandt would be very useful. This is causing a lot of emotion on all sides and has the potential to seriously damage wikipedia's reputation, SqueakBox 19:37, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Is it possible that I will be able to contact you or anyone at the foundation about this? Yanksox 21:03, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
I would like to as well, SqueakBox 21:07, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Dear Mr. Wales
I've been actively involved in university life from undergraduate to post-graduate student, to researcher, lecturer and Prof. since 1975 (both in Europe and the Americas, in addition to industry-baseed R&D on both sides of the Atlantic). For the past couple of years I've been an active and enthusiastic contributor to Wikipedia etc (though far less than some dedicated individuals!. I had great hopes for Wikipedia, but it has, in many ways, exceeded my expectations.
I feel that the versity suffix throws us into a whole new, and very much more exigent and critical arena. (And rightly so. -I expect that the people who'll come here won't be seeking general knowledge but rather, expecting something much more advanced). I fully support the initiative, but feel duty-bound to express my concerns that contributors MUST adopt a very much more conscientious, rigorously self-critical and professional attitude than in other wiki-projects (be they formally "qualified" or not) when preparing their submissions, edits, suggestions etc. etc.
Versity-level respect and recognition can only be won by long, hard work, but can be lost in the blink of an eye ! WIKI does, potentially, deserve this level of respect, but will have to earn it.
Have no doubt, numerous representatives (probably the majority) of the traditional academic community will be very vocal in denouncing any error or misconduct, no matter how insignificant or short-lived. It would be an enormous pity to see such a noble project flounder under such criticism. (Wikityke 23:10, 23 February 2007 (UTC))
Dear Mr Wales,
If the misssion statement is still open to discussion, it's far too early to definitively decide on the motto and logo, surely !
It's more than correct to elect an INITIAL motto and logo, but please, shouldn't it be made clear that this should not be "written in stone" and should be open to change as the project evolves/matures. Wikityke 23:11, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Could you put your signiture on this page? It sounds like this person really wants you on their signiture book. Thank you! --ASDFGHJKL=Greatest Person Ever+Coolest Person Ever 00:56, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
Last July I wrote here: "Wikipedia would be much better off if it had a quarter of the number of articles, and a quarter of the number of editors, but some system in place for ensuring that both articles and editors meet some standard of quality. Sooner or later this will have to be done, or Wikipedia will die a slow death as serious editors depart for more rigorously managed projects, and the cranks and illiterates are left to take over the asylum."
Now that Larry Sanger has started a new encyclopaedia project, one at which people have to edit under their real names and at which articles can be brought to completion, that moment has arrived, and I must take my leave. I am rather sad to be doing so, because I have had a lot of fun at Wikipedia and met a lot of admirable people, but I cannot justify spending my time on a project which is doomed to failure by its own ideological fetishes (actually, your fetishes, Mr Wales).
There are some aspects of Citizendium that I don't like, and I am by no means certain that it will succeed. But at least it has the basics right - no anonymous editing, due weight given to people who actually know something about the subject they are writing about, and articles which can be put before the public as accurate and reliable. That's what an encyclopaedia is, and what Wikipedia, by its own choice, cannot become. Adam 05:03, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
Adam 10:12, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi Jimbo, thought to point out the loss of another good editor, and his reasons thus. See User:Djegan for intelligent read. Taramoon 18:30, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
Dear Mr. Wales! I write this to you, because you as the founder of wikipedia are interested in truth. On the German wikipedia the history of Croatia and Croatian people during the Yugoslavian period is denied. They do not accept that in Yugoslavia lived many nations. Every scinetist, musician or anything else is declined as a yugoslav. As an example Ivan Meštrović. Everywhere he is a Croatian, only on the German Wikipedia not. Now there is a big discussion, but it is still the same. Just a few people, perhaps about 5 %, the admins allow to decline as a Croat. It is not only the Yugoslavian period, also when Croatia was a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Nearly everbody is declined as a citizen of that empire, but if you write down that he/she is Croatian it is deleted and you will be banned for this They do not accept other opinions and ban you. I do not think this is in spirit of wikipedia it is just a misuse of power of 4-5 users/admins. I hope you understand what I mean and you can help me. This is the discussion: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vermittlungsausschuss/Benutzer_Theraphosis Yours sincerly Katarina K. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 83.131.145.148 (talk) 17:27, 24 February 2007 (UTC).
- looking over the last couple entries, many interesting issues have come up with wikipedia, and I can say that even if it went down tomorrow it would have been a success, and that even if half the articles were of horrible quality and blatantly false it would have been a success, at least in several senses. Issues such as certain language categories of wikipedia influenced by one nation or another having particular biases is very interesting stuff when it comes to thinking about the nature of information, and even the "experts" can have their own idiosyncratic biases. The editor calling for a reduction to 1/4 the articles i cant understand, why??, the more info the better. calling for a reduction of editors too has its problems, an editor may be bad for most pages yet good on a few, and one of the advantages wikipedia has, is a very large number of people compiling information. The idea of no anonymous editors has its good points like accountability and likely fewer vandals, yet also its problems. There are of course issues with the system of wikipedia that are built into the concept, and an article compiled by one nations editors or even a particular generation of that nations editors could indeed look very different than anothers. Who is to say which is more truly accurate? NPOV & total accuracy is just not achievable, even by the smartest 100 people on this planet, or that will ever live on this planet, its not even achievable to the beings of your greatest omnipotent/omniscient imaginings, because NPOV doesnt actually truly exist, and can only be approximated. One editor might say swedish wikipedia is a liberal outlet, another might say it is hard right & english wikipedia is borderline fascist, it just depends on the reference point of the observer, and there are certainly hard right/left editors cruising wikipedia in all languages. Also 100% accuracy in a wide ranging compendium doesnt truly exist, even if we just take one subject article, its impossible on most articles to get 100% accuracy, you may even have 10 top experts, yet get certain key points incorrect or may mislead the reality, and to get 100% accuracy in the article you would just have to leave out a bunch of items that are worthwhile, and keep it as an 100% undisputed stub. It seems the best anyones encylopedia could accomplish would still need the tag "some of this is pretty accurate, the best we could do, some of it surely has problems", anything claiming more i would be suspect of, and is misleading 83.79.168.184 00:44, 25 February 2007 (UTC)